Author Topic: SS sells mostly outside US? (Read 4563 times)

disorderly · « **Reply #25 on:** September 08, 2009, 22:08 »

Quote from: mwp1969 on September 08, 2009, 18:46

Where are you seeing this data that compares US Sales to Non-US Sales?

-Mark

On the Submit page, under PERFORMANCE STATS, click on the details button.
At the bottom of the page, under Gross Earnings, click on the link for payment history.
For the last two months you'll see Gross, US and non-US income.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #26 on:** September 08, 2009, 22:28 »

33% US 66% World

Adeptris · « **Reply #27 on:** September 09, 2009, 02:09 »

I was wondering about this as the US is reported as the biggest image buying market, so are they all using Getty and Istock in the USA, the same 25% USA : 75% ROTW percentages were reported by The3DStudio.com in another thread in response to withholding tax question.

There is a lot of articles based on what the US buyers want, but I wonder what percentage of all images are purchased by the US buyers?

David

hoi ha · « **Reply #28 on:** September 09, 2009, 04:33 »

I noticed the same results a couple of weeks ago with non-US sales far larger than US sales - it did not make sense to me though because the vast majoirty of my sales occur during North American business hours - so it got me wondering how SS determines the "nationality source" of sales - it could be that the sales are to companies operating in the US but that the companies are actually incorporated offshore, as probably the majority of US companies are. Could that explain it?

MikLav · « **Reply #29 on:** September 09, 2009, 09:43 »

I am not like others

For me it's almost precisely 50/50 for US/non-US

but I didn't upload in July/August and August was low - perhaps September will be different proportion.

lisafx · « **Reply #30 on:** September 09, 2009, 09:55 »

40/60 split for me, in favor of non-US sales.

michaeldb · « **Reply #31 on:** September 09, 2009, 13:33 »

Quote from: hoi ha on September 09, 2009, 04:33

I noticed the same results a couple of weeks ago with non-US sales far larger than US sales - it did not make sense to me though because the vast majoirty of my sales occur during North American business hours - so it got me wondering how SS determines the "nationality source" of sales - it could be that the sales are to companies operating in the US but that the companies are actually incorporated offshore, as probably the majority of US companies are. Could that explain it?

I wonder about this also. My SS sales are only 30% US, but it seems to me that US holidays (such as Labor Day) and US business hours have a much greater than 30% impact on my sales fluctuations. Could offshore-incorporated companies be buying enough images to account for the US-timing impact?

Dreamframer · « **Reply #32 on:** September 09, 2009, 14:38 »

OK, I got my payment today. My US sales are only 16,4% of my total sales.

Opla · « **Reply #33 on:** September 09, 2009, 14:54 »

25% US for me

Microstock Posts · « **Reply #34 on:** September 10, 2009, 12:12 »

Quote from: Whitechild on September 09, 2009, 14:38

OK, I got my payment today. My US sales are only 16,4% of my total sales.

Haha 16.5% are US based for me. The vast majority of my photos are taken in Asia. Maybe that explains it.

BikeTourist · « **Reply #35 on:** September 10, 2009, 13:42 »

My numbers:

US - 40%

World - 60%

Many of my images that I can find have been used in Europe, so I'm not surprised.

mwp1969 · « **Reply #36 on:** September 28, 2009, 01:49 »

One has to ask where is the majority of the marketing spend ...

I believe emerging markets around the world will be a driving factor for microstock sales for several years.

-Mark

holgs · « **Reply #37 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:31 »

My US sales are about 18% - also much lower than expected.

Actually I met a few SS subscribers in Colombia. Looking at that google chart, it seems Latin America is pretty well represented, which could explain the US time-zone sales, which are essentially the same as here.

Maybe we should all be keywording in Spanish